Spotify - anyone heard of it?

Sometimes i am browsing the internet on my phone while listening to spotify and the music cuts out because the website—often cnn or the washington post—automatically starts playing some little video ad—often far downscreen and on mute.

Coukd someone who works at spotify fix this? Like have the music override other content? It’s very annoying

Seconded

Let’s get a mod in here to take care of this

kinda feel like that's more of a cnn/wpost issue

nah it's a safari issue in general on apple--happens to me when im listening to itunes music as well.

Maybe try installing an extension that disables (html5)autoplay?

No dice if using Safari.

On ipad/iphone that is.

Are you listening to Spotify through the browser or the app?

I see XTC have a new single out, called Internet

I have the same problem with chrome on my android phone

In other words, when I'm playing music on the spotify phone app, there are many websites I can't browse because their autoplay videos/ads override spotify.

website autoplay should be fucking banned, i hate that shit

I wonder how this showed up on my release radar:
https://open.spotify.com/track/2gC6syANXZIQFTgpVPVIcT

a glitch in the matrix?

I got the same track, wtf

As, sadly, did a <i>lot</i> of people. It's being fixed...

Glenn, any idea why when I add new albums to my New Music playlist, it takes a couple weeks before they start popping up in my shuffle queue?

this isn't awful tbh

there have been far worse things on my release radar

I do not answer any questions about Shuffle.

Bummer

Irrationally angry that some generic dubstep guy called "Tar" showed up in my New Release Radar. Looked at all of the reporting options, but there doesn't seem to be one meant for a basic music fan to report name confusion. If I say I don't like Tar, I guess it will think I don't like the classic 90s band, so I just said I didn't like the song itself.

I fixed the Tars.

Oh, thanks! Right after I posted that, a rapper named “Rush” showed up.

Yeah, I got Jewel, Rush, Anakin and Travis already...

haha yeah I got the Rush guy on my release radar today, wasn't too bad

I got retro-metal Them and rap KING in lieu of 60s Them and R&B KING ... both aight but

I was going to let the Rush one go but then Spotify emailed me…

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1896/29609821867_de678aa53a_b.jpgScreen Shot NotRush

This week's RR turns up an alt Chic (Latinx rap).

Most of the historic cases of multipe artist same name mistakes have been fixed in the first few years of discogs, i ran into loads of these cases when I used to enter 90s rave/techno comps and 12”s, I swear half of these projects had a namesake from the 60s/70s.

― Siegbran, Monday, August 13, 2018 7:10 AM (three weeks ago)

I have fixed many dozens in the last two years and have about twenty tabs currently open to get back to sometime ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Monday, August 13, 2018 3:55 PM (three weeks ago)

I've fixed 67 wrong-name-on-discogs-es since this post (including some ANVs, and the exact opposite problem of same artist multiple entries) but have only closed one of the earlier tabs

I didn't think XTC had a song about social media, but RR set me straight this week.

Using the web player (since I can't install the app at work.) Seems the order of my albums, which used to be alphabetical by artist, are now ordered by the date that I added them. Would really like to revert to the original view.

Folders with lots of playlists in them now no longer display in the main window, just a big old black expanse

Er, I still see the folder contents in the Mac version, at least. Which client are you using?

OMG please don't ever take the folders away. It's bad enough Spotify removed the ability to shuffle within folders.

The day is going to come when Spotify does something to their UX that is going to utterly ruin the years of effort I've put into organizing my library. It happened once before when iTunes became Apple Music - and that was the day I never used the platform again.

don't get sonos then, or any other system that hooks into the spotify api. folders don't come through in the api, and they ain't going to add them.

although i don't see why they can't - there's a bug for it marked as WONTFIX for the following reason:

The implementation of folders you see in the Desktop client is not one that lends itself to a resource-based API (for example, there are no folder IDs). Unfortunately this is something we are not technically able to implement. As a result, we are not able to support playlist folders in the Web API.

which makes sense, but why not just add folder path as a string to each playlist resource and let clients rebuild the structure?

yrs, a disgruntled owner of new sonos speakers.

10,000 songs per device on five devices, like three years after the horse bolted

sonos drove me crazy for awhile, but at least they find the speakers. spotify cannot seem to regularly find the speakers through the "devices available" button. don't know who's at fault. anyway, I'm addicted to the sonos app queueing system now

the hit box for the three vertical dots in the sonos app's tracks lists is also hilariously small. it is basically the exact same setup as spotify but not usable - you either select the track to play now or cause the hidden scroll bar to appear. I only recently learned that you can select and hold the track to bring up the same menu in both apps.

Using the web player (since I can't install the app at work.) Seems the order of my albums, which used to be alphabetical by artist, are now ordered by the date that I added them. Would really like to revert to the original view.

Excellent news for my use! Odd that the web player can't change the order.

Er, I still see the folder contents in the Mac version, at least. Which client are you using?

PC desktop version. Some folders still seem to work, but most of them just do this when I click on them:
https://image.ibb.co/naqqpp/Untitled.png

Release Radar is better this week, no weird same-name bands, a nice selection across genres

only yesterday did I realize how the local music function works - I can actually sync the bootlegs and rarities on my PC onto my phone!

trick is to activate local music (basically just point to your music folder(s)) on the desktop app, create a playlist with the local tracks you want to play on the go, then download that list from mobile device (needs to be on same wifi as desktop, I believe)

there's probably all sorts of limitations (no flac for one) but I'm streaming my Hissing of Summer Lawns demos on the go now, and it rules!

Yes, they don't make this obvious!

Having Spotify pick up all my local music made the app hopelessly unuseable so now I am copying local tracks in my playlists to a dedicated folder just for the app to refer to. Pretty dumb but at least it finds them instantly now.

And yeah we could probably use a 'I don't like remixes of this artist' as much as the 'I don't like this song/artist' option in RR.

I spoke too soon about the absence of same-name bands in this week's RR ... rap Santana is not elderly Santana

is that a Juelz Santana track that’s been tagged as just Santana or is there a new rap Santana

not sure, here's the track -- https://open.spotify.com/track/0DN9l3WjYWqTf6GEOQnCG6